Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate Aviation Subcommittee, Mike Monroney ran the report through his committee and got legislation moving. With single-minded disregard for political pitfalls and bureaucratic bear traps, Monroney thrashed his way through the congressional jungle with expert leadership. One member of his safari: Pete Quesada, whose good World War II friend and commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower, had just named him Special Assistant for Aviation...
...borough or local council can fix its own hours, no one can be sure just when "Time, gentlemen" will be called. As if the pub situation were not confusing enough, a hotel guest, while able to drink at any time because he is legally "at home," cannot offer a friend a drink when the local pub is closed. Nor can a grocer sell a housewife liquor, though he is allowed to "deliver"-if only to a waiting pram...
...does Ma get away with it? Some say his age saves him; others speak of a powerful friend. A mandarin trained before World War I at Yale and Columbia (he wrote a thesis on New York City municipal finances), Ma returned to China around 1918 to teach, and to advise Chiang Kai-shek from time to time on economic matters. Always a maverick, he was arrested by the Nationalists during World War II as one of the Chiang government's most vehement Kuomintang critics. Ma later acknowledged that Communist Liaison Officer Chou En-lai "did everything in his power...
...short time after his talk with Stevenson, "Scotty" Reston put through a call of his own to the junior U.S. Senator from Arkansas, Democrat J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and another Reston friend and source. This time, the Washington correspondent had an assignment for the Senator. Reston had been brooding about the problems that would face a newly elected U.S. President, "that exhausted man who stumbles across the line the first of November," with but eleven weeks before taking office in January...
...negotiations reached some point covered in his private file. The Department of State, in a mystified frenzy, falsely accused the British of leaking to Reston and protested to the Times and the FBI started investigating Reporter Reston. British Ambassador Lord Halifax, a friend of Reston's, refused to see him: "I'm not going to keep your friendship at the price of losing that of the American Secretary of State...